Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 11:57:08 +0000 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <royger@freebsd.org>, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Cc: bapt@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xen_kernel, console and X11 Message-ID: <CAKYr3zy3r5vL5Jwsh8PSqDXg=GHb-mucfJPTGrUxE1H==Gg-Tg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55473E2A.3020306@FreeBSD.org> References: <20150502154340.GA8333@kloomba> <55473E2A.3020306@FreeBSD.org>
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I'll get back on mine in a day or so as its on an IBM blade server. On Mon, 4 May 2015 7:39 pm Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <royger@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > El 02/05/15 a les 17.43, Roman Bogorodskiy ha escrit: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get Xen running and following these instructions: > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xen > > > > and > > > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0 > > > > I'm running two days old -CURRENT and ports. I've installed the > > emulators/xen port and followed instructions in pkg-message. > > > > I'm having some problems with console. I'm wondering if it's possible t= o > > have X running on the same box running xen kernel? > > It should be, although I had issues while using the vesa driver with a > FreeBSD Xen Dom0, mainly because Dom0 doesn't have access to the BDA and > EBDA, I'm working on fixing this in Xen upstream. > > > My setup is as follows: > > > > - Intel i5-4690 that supports IOMMU: > > $ sudo acpidump -t|grep DMAR > > DMAR: Length=3D128, Revision=3D1, Checksum=3D90, > > $ > > - vm.max_wired=3D-1 in /etc/sysctl.conf > > - xc0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure in > > /etc/ttys > > > > In loader.conf I have: > > > > xen_kernel=3D"/boot/xen" > > xen_cmdline=3D"dom0_mem=3D2048M dom0_max_vcpus=3D4 dom0pvh=3D1 com1=3D1= 15200,8n1 > > guest_loglvl=3Dall loglvl=3Dall console=3Dcom1" > > So you are trying to use the serial console but you are not getting any > output? If that's not the case, please drop the com1 parameter and set > console=3Dvga. > > Do you have anything else in your /boot/loader.conf apart from this two > lines? > > > > > With this setup I get my system booted and at some point I can see a > > login screen. When I type 'startx' the system freezes. Have to hard > > reboot it to get working again. > > On which device do you get a login prompt? Is it xc0, ttyv0 or ttyu0? > > Roger. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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